If it makes you feel any better, I actually purchased a Vanilla Ice cassette in high school, along with a ton of horrid rap & hip-hop albums. Color Me Badd, Bell Biv Devoe, Kool Moe Dee, Young MC...to name a few.

Good God, what was I thinking?

/hangs head in shame
//cranks some Jesus Lizard to dull the painful memories

That list is bad, but i've seen worse. hell, i started out on my musical journey listening to shitty visual kei acts and fuckin'

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There's an awful CD single I have from high school called "Peanut Butta" by Scarlet Letter. I didn't know who the singer/group was, or what year the single came out on, but an old friend of mine and I bought it one night because the cover was amusing. I don't think they even have this on Amazon.

As for embarrassing mix tapes, I have one from years ago that a friend gave me by "2gether," the parody boyband from MTV.

I still like the ol' Backstreet Boys. I have their first album and probably their only good one.

I'm disappointed to still have NSYNC's first album in possession.

And sadly the required Napster downloads back in the day, such as Britney Spears (shudder).

I'm fairly embarassed to own "NOW 2" -- but since it was a friend's CD that I accidentally ended up keeping, I don't feel *quite* so bad. A lot of my 'early' music consists of Creed, Eminem, Korn, a smattering of Limp Bizkit, SoaD, Bush, Pearl Jam, Collective Soul, Offspring, Metallica, Tool, Megadeth and Nirvana. Sounds pretty standard for 8th-10th grade in my area.

That said, it doesn't completely horrify me too much (aside from the Korn/LB/Creed stuff). I mean, whenever I run across songs that I've burned onto mix CDs or hear them at random on the radio, it brings back nice memories. They belong in the past, but I spent a lot of time locked away in my room drawing to the radio in those days -- and admittedly, not everything was terrible, awful music on the airwaves, either. And the Metallica/Aerosmith/Led Zepplin was normally stolen from my dad's CD collection.

I can forgive myself for most everything except for Limp Bizkit. Really, with the shittiness of both their lyrics and music, I can't bring myself to admit that I had one of their stickers on my viola case in 7th grade :(.

The other day I was taking a quick listen to an array of old (like...4 years ago) mix CDs and all I find are just generic trance/OC remixes and stuff, rather lame.

The only stuff I feel ashamed about listening to in high school is linkin park and New Found Glory. I had CD's of Good charlotte, Simple Plan, and Trust Company, but that's only cause friends gave them to me. I always hated those bands.
Then again, I still have some guilty pleasures. Like Dashboard Confessional and 4 songs (only four!) by The Used.

You should see my embarassing CD collection from High School: (I don't know most of the album names right off the bat.)

S Club 7
Kylie Minogue: Fever
Britney Spears: Baby One More Time
Britney Spears: Oops I Did It Again...
Grease (The Musical OST)
Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Mandy Moore: Real(?)
Shakira: Laundry Service

God I hate myself for EVER buying this crap. :( (About $160 bucks on CDs that I could of used towards better things.)

I have the first NOW CD lying in my old cd case. It was a bad choice from begining to end. The only redeeming song on it was a Harvey Danger song that I cant remember the name of for the life of me.

What on earth is wrong with "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"? Have you even listened to that album in its entirity? "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" alone sets it head and shoulders above anything else mentioned in this thread.

That album is considered by many to be a timeless classic, a record whose brilliance will endure throughout generations. I tend to agree. I think we can all finally look beyond Elton John's flamboyance long enough to say that the man is a gifted musician and songwriter. He will always be in a much higher league than Britney Spears, DMX, Creed and Aqua.

I will proudly admit that I own this album and listen to it often. It's fantastic and definitely nothing to be ashamed of.

Sisqo - Thong Song
Britney - Oops I did it Again
Desitny's Child (what the hell?) - Say my Name
Creed - My Sacrifice
Five - Everybody Get Up
Shaggy - It Wasn't Me
Lots and lots of Eminem. Lots.

that's what i used to listen to also...now i just don't get NEAR anything like those...i forgot that shaggy or five or britney or sisqo even existed...

actually, a few days ago, i was listening to a mixed CD i made for my friend a few years ago and started laughing at the abondance of Eminem there and of too many BAD laughable songs!